It doesn't matter what we think, some prick or pricks in Europe will have made the decision. It's probably seen as being against their human rights or some s*** like that.
You would think they have a bit of logic that learning the language will help those employees in more ways than one. Unless they are going to stay at home after work, they will encounter the language everywhere they go. Not as if you are asking them for anything more than conversational English anyway.
There's ensuring employee rights and there's being a PC idiot.